Naomi Lindstrom explains that Borges saw an effort to make a story appear natural "as an impoverishment of fiction's possibilities and falsification of its artistic character." Themes The choice and use of literary devices are conspicuous in the stories.
Edited and introduced by Anthony Kerrigan, the other translators were Anthony Bonner, Alastair Reid, Helen Temple, and Ruthven Todd. In 1962, an English translation of Ficciones was published by Grove Press. In 1948, the story "The Garden of Forking Paths" was translated into English by Anthony Boucher and published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Borges added three more stories to the Artifices section in the 1956 edition. These were given the collective title Ficciones. In 1944, a new section labeled Artificios ("Artifices"), containing six stories, was added to the eight of The Garden of Forking Paths. In 1941, Borges's second collection of fiction, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (English: The Garden of Forking Paths) was published. The book is dedicated to writer Esther Zemborain de Torres Duggan, a friend and collaborator of Borges's. Ficciones became Borges's most famous book and made him known worldwide. " The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" originally appeared published in A History of Eternity ( Historia de la eternidad) (1936). In the same year, Grove Press published the entirety of the book in English using the same title as in the original language. Thirteen stories from Ficciones were first published by New Directions in the English-language anthology Labyrinths (1962). Ficciones (in English: "Fictions") is a collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, originally written and published in Spanish between 19.
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